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Noah Webster said, "The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible, and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book, may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer." Is our country suffering? (CE) II. Since the banning of organized prayer in public schools, the nation has been in steady moral decline. Divorce rates, teen pregnancy, violent crime, and suicide rates have all increased. (CE) According to Former Secretary of Education William Bennett.... A. Stability in the family has been affected since the 1962 decision. Divorce, single parent families, couples living together but not married, and adultery are areas of family breakdown which have experienced radical growth in recent years. Divorce alone saw an 200% increase.(CE) Before 1962, the status was basically stable. B. In the years previous to the removal of prayer the rates of u